New Castle Elementary

New Castle Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia, run under Virginia Beach City Public Schools, with 728 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 499 students per school, that is 46% larger than typical.

Virginia Beach City Public Schools runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 64,731 students. New Castle Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, New Castle Elementary shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 15% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 11% Black. By comparison, Virginia Beach city as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, New Castle Elementary logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Virginia Beach city's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, New Castle Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.8%, the actual is 86.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Virginia Beach city indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,968 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Virginia Beach city runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,731 students), of which New Castle Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Landstown Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Castle Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 77.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Castle Elementary has ticked down 7%, going from 785 students in 2018 to 728 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 9% to 14%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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